Reflections

So today is the second day of the second week of my 12 week challenge... I dont know if I am every going ot get the hang of this eating, sleeping, exercising, family, me time.... balance right. Ok ok, some of you may say.. scrap the me time, you have kids. But when you are lone parenting. "Me time" is so important, any single mother or /wife/ partner to man/woman who works away would have to agree.

I have been on a mission to get some mirrors for my home gym today as I feel as though I need to watch my tecnique for one.. and my gym is combined with my office... and looking at my reflection may urge me to exercise whenever I am in this room... Maybe.

Exercise is such a difficult thing to fit into your life when it was never really a  big part of it before. I know all too well how important it is. I have done alot of reflecting on my health and well being in the past 12 months. More so in the past 6.

I just wish it came more naturally. I really need to get the children involved so that when they are young adults it is just part of their every day, and they enjoy it.
Looking back when I was growing up I danced for a couple of years as a little one, went back to it a couple of times, but by the time I was 13 or 14 I found boys and they where much more important than dancing or netball. Pretty silly now that I think about it.

I think that being active and playing a sport is really important for my girls. And I think thats why I think 2 children is probably enough for now, so that we can afford to have them involved in as much as possible to build the foundations for them to bounce off when they are old enough to start making big life choices of their own.

I think we will always give them an option of what they want to do. But Sticking to it and being passionate about something I think is also very important.

As an adult I really have nothing that I do for myself. nothing that I have ever been passionate about. I am a pretty scattered character, I am not sure why. I just think that I was too interested in getting up to mischief I didn't have time to find something I really liked doing. and now I have children, I really want them to have a passion in life, follow a dream.

I guess we can either learn from ourselves or we can be ignorant and pretend their is nothing wrong with us, or the way we grew up... or even the way we live now

I best be off and cook some dinner for my wee ones.